@falcor comes over and hangs every once and awhile. I have to keep 55 gallon drums of Pepto from all the trolls he eats. He really needs to add more leafy greens to his diet.
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I would like to subscribe to your feel good box!
Does the the first box contain all those items or are they spread out over the year? 
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That’s really the key indicator here. It’s all about making his life better, not worse. If he can handle the surgery and thrive then it’s a no-brainer. If it comes down to not being worth the risk or if it won’t provide long term help, then it may be time to make some hard choices.
You sound like a wonderful animal parent, and while I know this is a totally cliche thing to hear, you will know what the right decisions are to make when you’re presented with the options.
I wish you and Danny the best of luck.
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My blood pressure 
has been way up for days and I haven’t been sleeping well 
… which is just the introduction.
I can have 2-3 cups of coffee a day without it giving me an anxiety attack as long as I’m not already having high anxiety and no one makes the 
double strong. Someone made the coffee double strong. 
So I’ve been fighting my own instincts 
to lash out at people all day long and fighting to stay awake because of the medicine 
I took to deal with the anxiety attack.
And 
ers kept honking 
for no reason much of my drive home. 
Putting me even more on edge.
I decided to put my 
extra energy to good 
use and try to entertain 
this thread with excessive emoji.
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In late April we brought our 14-year-old dog to the vet with a suspicion of problems. She was diagnosed first with laryngal paralysis (which is somewhat operable, though with bad side effects, so we were probably not going to do it), then subsequently with a big lump on her larynx which biopsied to be an aggressive cancer, already blocking 3/4 of her windipe. The vet gave her a few days to live, and she was really poor after we got her home from the vet, needing fairly serious pain and anxiety medications. (I posted about this here on May 1.) We decided to not attempt any procedures, but rather to try to keep her comfortable. To our surprise she has been getting, not exactly better but certainly more stable, with no obvious pain or anxiety attacks and a renewed joy in activity (which however is rather limited by her reduced breathing ability). We know the cancer is not curable, and her time will come soon enough, but for at least a month she has been almost our old dog again, rather than dead as the vets (2 of them) predicted.
I suppose this should really go in the “victories” thread, but it seemed appropriate to a discussion of how far to carry out procedures on elderly pets.
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Waaay more constructive than my method of dealing with things. It looks like a clown sneezed all over your post. 
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It seems to have helped. I didn’t really plan it but I tend to use a “lot” of emoji anyway. 
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Everything about the new god damn baseball stadium in town (well, in Cobb Co) makes me angry… I had to drive by where it’s being built yesterday, and the new sign on the highway made me want to pull over, climb up and beat the sign with a baseball bat.
Now this stupid shit.
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Ok, I couldn’t figure this one out. Clue me in?
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It’s kind of a BBS in-joke. Though I may not actually be in on the joke. 
got substituted in place of fuck on this one thread. I don’t know if it started there and I don’t know if everyone on the thread just decided to put in or if something else was going on.
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That is freakin’ awesome. 
Glad your dog is doing better!
We just got back home from the consult (which took all day as they were slotting his tests between other booked procedures.) The tests look good, he’s in better shape than I’d thought, so surgery looks like a go either Monday or Tuesday next week, if I can get my work shift on Monday covered.
Right now, Danny’s resting. They doped him up for the ultrasounds and it’s not out of his system yet. 
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That’s great news! I hope the surgery goes well and that he has a speedy recovery.
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Just heard that a former colleague of mine who was a good friend died this week. Hadn’t seen him in five years but still sad.
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I’d ask why, but in the end it doesn’t really matter. Not to me. Not right now. Instead I just have an urge to scream. Fuck everything about this, every single thing. Fuck the guns, fuck the lack of empathy, fuck the actions that could give anyone an excuse to rationalize this, to feel trapped, left without recourse… and for FUCKS sake can we just stop fucking killing each other? Just for one. fucking. day. Please?
P.S. Oh, and fuck the racist fucking cunts who will use this justify their intolerance.
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I just read about the Princess. I’m so sorry, @nemonem, she was real to all of us and we all feel it too.
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It’s like a cancer, taking control of local blood supply and sucking nutrients from its host. The monster must feed. Seriously, fuck that whole plan.
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My gaming PC has just failed. My main source of stress relief is gone.
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I’ve been having broken sleep over the last couple of weeks, and I have no concentration left. I could have done the amount of work I’ve done this week in one day a few months ago. Yesterday I had a nap to try to catch up on sleep, then I stayed awake all night last night. I’ve had people asking me to do stuff, run errands, meet appointments etc. all day today. I’m so tired, I just want to crash.
Also, I’m still on the same medication as ever (my psychiatrist still won’t let me change), and the low energy is having predictable effects on my mood. I know it’s just chemicals and lack of sleep, but it’s a pain.
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Came onto the forum, liked 2 posts (in this thread, no less!) and was immediately informed that I’m out of likes for 2 hours, which means I’m off this forum until the next time I have some free time at least 2 hours from now.
I can’t remember the last day I didn’t run out at least a couple of times. I’m probably going to have to stop reading here.
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Well some threads more than others just for sanity today.
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